The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-11-24

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socially /" with the wives of knights"
The weigh, TO wealth - Seventeen
hundred pounds to the ton.
LETTERS of President Zachary Tay
lor are worth from SIS to S25.
FIRE at NJ mphis Thursday night
destroyed $755, 900 worth of cotton.
JOHN G. WHrTTIER will celebrate
his s0th birthday on the 18th of next
month.
JUDGE THURMAN announces that
he will not reply 10 Gen. Jackson's
letter.
RosE, the Presidents sister, will
spend the Christmas holidays at the
White House
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN says lie
spent nearly $50, 900 to secure pardon;
for the executed Anarchists.
JOHN j. RhsLINE, the we'll knSwn
Irish patriot, died at his home in New
York on the 18th inst.
THE Youngstown Vindicator has
been sold to Edward Reidy, late OF
the Cincinnati Enquirer.
MAHoNING county gave Foraker a
plurality of 639 and elected Demo
erat TO the Office OF Probate Judge bv
q plurality ef 81.
LAKE Erie was foot lower on Fri.
day last than il ever was known to be
before. Caused by strong westerly
winds.
THE greatest possible liberty obtains
in America, but the greatest possible
liberty does not mean the greatest pos
sible license.
Martin LeFever was accidentally
shot by his son,, while the two were
hunting near Holmesviiie, Wayne
county, last Friday week.
Incsndiaries tried to set fire to the
Wayne Co. Court House one night last
week, but the fire was discovered be.
fore it had gained much headway.
A RRIBE is sum of money offered
to q person which is considered too
small to be satisfactory; when it rises
to the plane of satisfaction it becomes
a retainer.-[Lowell Citizen.
THE correct pronunciation of bomb
is bum." The profession of most of
the Anarchists and Socialists, oddly
enough, is pronounced in the same
way.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS subjects ex
pect him to celebrate his cetennial
birthday. OF his fifty-two predeces
sors, net one has reached the age OF
eighty.
GEN. LOaAN's books are selling well
Up to September so. 900 copies of "The
Great Conspiracy" had been sold, Mrs
Logan receiving royalty of 40 cents
on each copy sold.
The next Ohio Legislature will
have 25 Republicans and IL Democrats
In the Senate. and "a Republicans and
A Democrats in the House-a Repub
Hcan majority of "a on joint ballot.
IT is reported from the headqusrter,
of the G. A. r. that the vote of th.
different Posts throughout the couutr,
on the proposed new dependent pen
sion bill 10 practically unanimous.
WILLIE LEWIS, aged 10. got caugb'
10. 4
Tube works. at Youngstown, last Fri
day, aud had his left arm ground Of
above the elbow and was otherwis.
terribly injured.
AT its approaching convention, the
National Butter, Egg and Cheese AS
sociation will entieavor to provide
some measures by which eggs will be
sold everywhere by the pound insteaG
of by the dozen.
Mr.. TAYLOR, colored. United States
Minister to Liberia, is in Washiugto,
ON leave of absence. He SAYS tina
every military company in Liberia ha
about twenty seven officers to two ei
three privates.
THE blasphemous Chicago preaehe
who has been comparing the recentl,
executed Anarchists at Chicago to tht
transcendent being who was crucifie,
on the cross, is to be unfrocked. anG
the civilized world will say amen.
DIR. GATTLING, the inventor of th
famous gun that bears his name, ha,
invented another called the '.polic
gum" for use in case of riets. 1t is
brass gun, weighing seventy-eigh,
pounds, amounted on a tripod. 1t works
similarly to Gattling, and will de
liver 1000 shots o minute.
A LADY once went to Dublin Castle
in such very full dress that more bust
than barege was visible, did you
ever see anything 80 unblushing ?"
said some one to Archbishop Whately.
" Never, since was weaned," replies
the wit,
DR.. EDwARD EoeLEsToN, whose |
novel, "The Graysons," is now run
ming in the Century, was recently ap
pealed to by the editor of an low,
magazine to declare what sentence in |
all his writings bad pleased him most |
In answer, he sent simply the word
t" "finis.n
ONE of the most successful mission |
aries in Oroomiah is a blind Armenia:
from Harpool, Turkey. He knows th' |
Bible thoroughly, and riding on mis-
erable little donkey, which is led by |
one.eyed deaf maa, he gees boldl,
from village to village preaching the
1ospel. His blindness protects him,
and the people crowd to see the won
aer-a blind man reading.
CAPTAIN A. a. MILLS, prominent
and once wealthy vessel owner, Of De-
troit. suicided last Thursday night.
no letters which were found in his
noon financial embarrassment and